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Benefits: citizenry will see their police officers more
often, leading to a more integrated and trusting society
that isn't so frightened of the cops.
Potential of cost benefits with administrative
redundancy,
offices, some vehicles.
Warrant delivery efficiency. <Ding dong> "Here's your
mail, and a warrant to search the premises..."
More seamlessness between police agencies in different
locales.
Drawbacks: delivery of the mail may suffer when there's
a
call, shooting, etc...
Not a lot of synergy between mail sorting and delivery
and
criminal investigation.
Complications: the mail service is federal, while the
police
are local. Localizing the mail service seems easy
enough.
Okay, maybe just have the cops wear USPS uniforms...?
Bus-mounted mailbox
Bus-mounted_20mailbox
Alternative [8th of 7, Aug 21 2020]
The Invisible Man
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/204
Why postal workers have an advantage that the police don't. [8th of 7, Aug 21 2020]
Elegy in a Country Courtyard
https://www.poetryf...a-country-courtyard
As true today as it's always been. [8th of 7, Aug 22 2020]
The politics going postal
https://t.co/g8kiqYajDj
How they've gutted it for years [RayfordSteele, Aug 24 2020]
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I'm curious as to what the arrest of Steve Bannon
looked like. Did a mail delivery truck drive onto the
dock by, a bunch of goons jump out the
back, make their way onto the yacht promising a
signed package, stuff him into a mail bag, toss him
in the back, and drive off? |
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I imagine there was a black submarine involved, as well. |
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I've read all of Chesterton's mysteries. I don't
recommend doing that. He starts out good enough
but the later ones get all preachy. |
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My son's a
police officer, I'll ask him what he thinks of the
idea but I'm guessing he wont' be too crazy about it. |
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What about flipping it and having postmen be armed?
Although I guess that's no different than your idea, just a
different uniform. |
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Maybe the SWAT teams could double as special delivery
services. They do the fast deployment thing. |
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[+] anyway. I know you're at least partially kidding but
expanding on some synergy between the two services
wouldn't be a bad thing no? |
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Extrapolating, in reaching for a perfect society, everyone has a bit of knowledge of each service with enough per area and mobile professionals as society needs. |
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This would be good at giving a constant named human face for people and some serious local knowledge for the police. |
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[+] from me but I don't think our societies are evolved enough for this yet. |
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Sorry, you were out when we called. You can collect the remains
of your front door from the depot between 10:00 and 10:15
tomorrow. |
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Police are massively overworked. Even if this involved hiring enough cops to bring them back up to massively overworked despite deliveries, everyone would blame the delivery duties for the state of things. |
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Yeah both jobs are overworked, stressful, and knee-
deep in regulations to remember. I would see more
of an age-progression evolution, with older cops
moving to light-duty mail as a possibility rather than
one person or department trying to cover both roles. |
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// He starts out good enough but the later ones get all preachy. // |
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That's because he was a convert to catholicism, and therefore a rabid proselytizer... |
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But he produced one truly outstanding work, for which he can be forgiven all else. <link> |
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// Police are massively overworked. Even if this involved hiring enough cops ...// |
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But that's the whole point. |
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"Human history is the story oif scarce resources that have competing uses". |
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(Allegedly democratic) Societies get the police service that they are prepared to pay for. |
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You can have more and better police relatively quickly, BUT if the revenue base is fixed (which means taxation) something else has to go. |
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Therefore the police are "massively overworked" because this situation is acceptable to a majority of voters (in theory). |
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If it weren't, then a candidate who stood for election with a manifesto of "More money for police" (more taxes/cut other services) would (theoretically) get elected. |
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Since observational evidence indicates that this rarely happes, it seems reasonable to concluded that the current situation is satisfactory. |
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Unless, of course, you know different ... ? |
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Situational politics have much more than maximum
average satisfaction achievement as driving force.
There are inopportune constraints and interests that
warp the results into a laffy-taffy version of what
would be the happy medium. |
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